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“Then you shouldn’t have asked.”
“I’m going to go now. Are we cool?”
“I’m not happy about you being the one who told me you’re living here now. But it has nothing to do with you and everything to do with him.”
“Jackson, give him a break. I’m sure he was going to tell you. I just beat him to it. He had to go to the hospital.”
“After the way he treated you last night, you’re still defending him?”
Why was it so easy for people to forgive him?
What was it about my father that had an effect on people?
“Journey keeps calling me ‘Ma’, and every time it comes out of her mouth it hurts my heart. I can’t imagine what it feels like for your dad to hear her say it.”
“What does he expect?” I nodded, feeling that statement in my conscience. “He’s never around. Journey is with you all the time. I could think of worse things she could say.”
“Especially with what comes out of your mouth.”
I chuckled. More truth.
“Your dad loves you, Jackson. I know that sounds really hard to believe right now, but it’s accurate. He wouldn’t have asked me to move in if he didn’t love you as much as he does.”
“What does that have to do with anything?”
“Because it’s the first thing that flew out of his mouth this morning. What you guys would say to him if something happened to me. See, even he knows you like me.”
“You’re reaching, Camila.”
“You called me Camila, not Mary Poppins. Hashtag progress.”
I shook my head. “You really need to stop watching Mean Girls.”
“I’m not a regular nanny.” She smirked, winking. “I’m a cool nanny.”
Rolling my eyes, I hid back a smile. Enjoying the fact, we were establishing some sort of middle ground.
“Better watch out, cool nanny, who knows what I’m going to do to you now that you live here.”
She stopped smirking. “Wait, what?”
I deviously grinned before shutting and locking the door.
“Jackson!” She banged on it. “This is BS! You can’t keep pranking me!”
No answer, I pretended as if I couldn’t hear her. Already planning in my head what was in store for her. It was a nice distraction from the bullshit all around me.
“I know you can hear me! This works both ways, you demon spawn! I will get you back and really poison your food, so that you’re shitting for weeks!”
“Good to see you guys are back to normal,” Jagger interrupted, while I listened to him through the wood barrier.
“Oh my God, Jagger! How do you just keep showing up out of nowhere? How long have you been standing there?”
“Long enough to know you’re moving in.”
“It’s not like—”
“I know what it’s like. It’s you that doesn’t.”
